High Court ends the year tackling protests and private trusts
The High Court's December docket also includes a test for the federal government's move to send immigration detainees to Nauru.
The final High Court docket of the year is a broad church of cases traversing a possible police duty of care owed to protestors, the tax treatment of private trusts and the Albanese government’s decision to send immigration detainees to Nauru.
It also includes two matters held over from the October sittings after a barrister called in sick and the court sent the parties away with extra homework.
The December hearings get underway on Tuesday in Canberra with an appeal brought by a bystander injured at an “Invasion Day” rally in Sydney on 26 January 2017.
Laura Cullen suffered a severe head injury after being knocked to the ground as police moved to make an arrest. She was awarded $800,000 in compensation at trial, but the decision was reversed when the NSW Court of Appeal ruled 2-1 that police did not owe her a duty of care.
